- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:45:17 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Rich Franzen <r_ock@yahoo.com>
- cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Rich Franzen wrote: > Today I was surprised to see a validated page of mine which rendered > strangely. It was validated late last night, and I must have been too tired > to notice that part of the text on the page was in the wrong font family. > After half an hour of trying to figure out what it was, I finally saw it -- > a missing end-brace on a </tt> tag. > > Here is the problem code, with the uncaught error: > > - - - - - - - - - - > <!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > ... > <tt><b><a href="vl_st05.html"><=- Prev</a> > <a href="vl_st00.html">Wrap -=:></a></b></tt<br> > </div> </tt<br> is a valid shorthand for </tt><br> However, since many browsers have problems with it, I'd recommend checking with the WDG HTML Validator (http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/) with warnings enabled, or switch to XHTML where the shorthand is not allowed. -- Liam Quinn
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